Projects in genres: Horror

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Set in post-World War I England in 1921, The Awakening follows a skeptical woman (Rebecca Hall) who travels to a countryside boarding school to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. Just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling spectral encounter which defies all her rational beliefs.

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A man alone, awakes to noises. It is the day he has been informed that he is to die. Nervous and shaken by proceedings he decides to film his last day, but what wants him dead, and is it something he can defeat?

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A young couple move into their first pub, unexplained events start to happen, but is it all in their heads or is it something dark, something evil?

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A corporation plans to develop a residential tower block into luxury city apartments. As the residents galvanise, the corporation sends in someone to 'shake them up'.

The Horror of The Dolls features a strong ensemble cast, inter-twined narratives and an iconic piece of London architecture. The narrative is underpinned by the wealth divide, untouchable high-finance, malleable politicians and the resolve of a community under assault.

All wrapped in a blood-soaked and stylised horror thriller set against the breath-taking cityscapes of contemporary London. The Horror of The Dolls is a terrifying, atmospheric and unpredictable journey for the audience.

Key influences on the project are The Shining, Blue Velvet, The Wild Bunch, Short Cuts and Antichrist.

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A 20-something soldier takes his girlfriend, best friend and his girlfriend on a camping trip before returning to service. Things start to go badly wrong when the ghosts from his past start haunting the group with horrific and tragic consequences.

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In the UK's most haunted location, a group of seekers arrive to find the truth about life after death. They uncover much more than they bargained for. Very quickly they unearth an ancient stone artefact that shines a mirror upon their souls. Filmed on location at Annesley Hall in Nottinghamshire and once the home of Lord Byron, this film is a British paranormal thriller in true British fashion.

Featuring real British Druids filmed on location at Stonehenge and a host of British authors and musicians.

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In the aftermath of World War 1, an expectant bride from a well-to-do family marries her young lover. No happy-ever-after tale this, and The Tenement Ghost draws us swiftly into a sordid world of violence and despair. Yes, it begins well enough, the couple embarking on a grand European honeymoon, but the groom's thirst for alcohol is shortly apparent.

Returning to begin their new life together, the bride finds her efforts to nurture the marriage thwarted by her husband's excessive drinking. He dominates the relationship but spirals into alcoholism, his arrogance and self-loathing manifest in physical and emotional violence. Her rapid transition from starry-eyed bride to battered wife is marked by the appearance of a ghostly apparition and, though we are never sure whether this spectre is real or simply a fantasy borne of her brutal situation, its appearances become more frequent as her personality disintegrates.

The death of their unborn child pushes her ever closer to the edge of sanity until the ghostly visitor's promptings finally impel her into a last desperate attempt to free herself from torment, bringing the Tenement Ghost to its ghastly and appalling climax.

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The Unnameable is an 11 minute artists’ film trading in popular culture, sci-fi, cinema and horror. The title is a reference to both HP Lovecraft and Samuel Beckett's "Unnameables"; stories that melt in and out of reality and psychosis. Their characters fear what they know and also what eludes them. The Unnameable was filmed in an abandoned nursery for disabled children in west London.

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When young factory worker, Neil, witnesses a commuter commit suicide under a train he develops an unhealthy fixation with how it feels to take a life. Slowly he drags his work colleague and friend into a deranged plan to abduct, kill and dispose of a random stranger, but the truth proves far more brutal than they ever imagined.

THE URGE is an unrelenting trip into the disturbed minds of two young men, for whom 'what if' becomes a grisly reality.

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Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.

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Returning to visit his family, George is horrified to find his wife and children dead. Insisting that a ghostly presence killed them, George turns to spiritualist Robert Brandon for help.

Robert contacts the dead to piece together their tragic tale of ghosts, demons, murder and the family's darkest secret. Untangling lies and confusion, he discovers a truth far more dangerous than any ghost story and becomes a target for the darkness that tore the family apart.